Sound Off

Sound Off

November 09, 1992

Sunday's question: Do women need doctors who specialize in their overall health?

YES: 15

Doctors should take more time with women to understand their problems and listen to them instead of running them through and writing a bunch of prescriptions they do not need. Women today are too over-drugged by doctors...More women have died of breast cancer than the total number who have died of AIDS. I can assure you that if cancer of the testicles was as prevalent as breast cancer doctors would find a cure for this in the same way they're not finding a cure for breast cancer...If you go to a female doctor's office and see the crowded conditions of women patients, you'd see why we need a specialized health group.

NO:2

I'm a member of the medical profession. I trained hard for it, and I think I know it as well as anyone. I think this story is almost male bashing, it doesn't really tell what is going on. There is a need for gynecologists, but to say that we need specialists in this area is almost a marketing thing instead of medicine...We have enough specialization in this area as it is in women's health. They are called OB/GYNs.